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• “One Has to Take Sides, If One is to Remain Human.”

  

  “I can't believe in anything bigger than a home, or anything vaguer than a human being.”I hadn’t read Graham Greene before. My only connection to his works was... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: July.

  Non-Fiction: Nick Turse: Kill Anything That Moves. The Real American War in Vietnam. Fiction: Janelle Brown: What Kind of Paradise. Christina Li: The Manor... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The End of the Road in Poker Face

  

  “If you ask me a question and I lie, who are you having a conversation with? Nobody.”Spoilers for the second season of Poker Face! Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: June.

  Non-Fiction: Fergus Fleming: Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole. Stefan Zweig: Die Welt von Gestern. Erinnerungen eines Europäers. Fiction:... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links: 17/06/25

  Politics: I spent the last week reading Stefan Zweig's posthumously published autobiography The World of Yesterday (Die Welt von Gestern, in German). Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: May.

  

  Non-Fiction: Kristen Kish: Accidentally on Purpose. Diana Preston: A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole. Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale - We Are Both Alive to See This. Together.

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 6x10 The Handmaid's Tale. June: Boston is free. The Gilead occupation is over. We won. Here at least. Boston is America again. Praise... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – They Don’t Get to Decide Who You Are Anymore.

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 6x09 Execution.As armed Handmaids wreak havoc upon the households of their Commanders, the group of Red Centre Handmaids including Moira,... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale - You’re Just Like the Rest of Them.

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 6x08 Exodus.Who were we under these clothes? Who could we be? Who had they prevented us from being? Exodus is a thrilling episode. Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – We’re Here for All of Those Women.

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 6x07 Shattered.If there is one noticeable difference in tone since previous seasons of this show, it’s that we’re naming things as they are... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale - Are You on Board?

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 6x06 Surprise. All the tension of this episode – it’s the shortest of the season so far, and yet the most propulsive in terms of story–... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: April.

  Non-Fiction: Roderick MacFarquhar, Michael Schoenhals: Mao's Last Revolution. Reid Mitenbuler: Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age.... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale - Are You Getting Us Out?

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 6x05 Janine.At the centre of Janine are two conversations. One compares suffering, inflicted – what it means to have been deliberately... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale - This is My Turn.

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 6x04 Promotion.I feel like it breaks us every day. I don’t really have much in terms of theories about where all of these characters will... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale - There’s No God Here.

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 6x03 Devotion.This is the first episode of the final season that felt like it existed in the No Man’s Land between tying up some... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets - Do You Remember What We Promised?

  

  Yellowjackets: 3x10 Full Circle.You deserve everything that’s coming to you!What an appropriate title Full Circle is for the third season finale! Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – It is Not Over.

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 6x02 Exile. The only way is to show up and fight. I think the animating question of this final season of The Handmaid’s Tale, with limits... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – Now We’re Safe.

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 6x01 Train.It’s been two and a half years since June and Serena boarded that train leaving Toronto! It’s hard to return to the world of... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets – Death is Around Every Corner.

  

  Yellowjackets: 3x09 How the Story Ends. Surviving this was never the reward. Regardless of what else you take out of this season of Yellowjackets – a frustratio... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: March.

  Non-Fiction: Frances Fitzgerald: Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam.Max Hastings: Vietnam. An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975.Yang Jisheng:... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO